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Hair (1979)

★ 7.3 · 732 ratings on TMDB

Let the sunshine in!

Hair poster★ 7.3

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

DirectorMiloš Forman
CastAnnie Golden, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlotte Rae, Cheryl Barnes, Don Dacus, Dorsey Wright
GenresComedy, Drama, Music
The emergence reading

Hair keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, identity, rebellion, war, culture.

zero-distanceUSclassidentityrebellionwarculture
Also inFilms about classFilms about warFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

St Trinian's (2007)E8/E9 · class, cultureGrease 2 (1982)E8/E9 · class, cultureThe Idiots (1998)E8/E9 · class, cultureThe Devil Wears Prada (2006)E8/E9/E10 · class, cultureGreen Book (2018)E8/E9 · class, cultureGrease (1978)E8/E9 · class, identity

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · culture, warÆon Flux (2005)E4/E11 · rare rung · identity, rebellionArthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010)E6/E11 · rare rung · identity, warWarcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · culture, war

Same people

Shared director or cast.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)dir. Miloš FormanAmadeus (1984)dir. Miloš FormanMan on the Moon (1999)dir. Miloš FormanAmerican History X (1998)Beverly D'AngeloThe Godfather Part II (1974)Richard Bright127 Hours (2010)Treat Williams